Teaching English in Japan Pros and Cons 🇯🇵✏️
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Teaching English in Japan can be a rewarding experience and unique way to grow your teaching skills... but is it right for you? Ashely, an experienced ESL teacher, breaks down the pros & cons of teaching English in Japan to help you answer the question; should you teach in Japan? 🇯🇵
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Time Stamps ⏱️
00:00 Intro
00:56 Is it difficult to become a teacher in Japan?
01:53 Teaching opportunities in Japan
02:25 Do I need to speak Japanese?
02:54 Pro: Salary + Benefits
03:27 Pro: Collaborative classroom environment
03:48 Pro: A meaningful cultural exchange 🇯🇵
04:45 Pro: Efficient transportation
05:18 Pro: Delicious food
06:05 Con: Long commutes
06:22 Con: Feeling isolated
07:04 Con: Cost of living
07:45 Con: Long workdays
09:17 Con: Challenging workload (as an ALT)
10:19 Should you teach in Japan?
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Yes, I would love to
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May I know if the ranking of the university attended is important when applying for a teaching job in Japan?
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Hello. I would like to know what is the bachelor degree that I need to have to be a English teacher. First I do the TEFL course, and then?
As a current soon to be former teacher here, I can attest to some of this. However there are some arguments to be made.
Even if you aren't required to know Japanese, you better damn start learning because you're not going to form any quality relationships with your students or fellow staff here unless you know the bare minimum. Otherwise, don't bother coming here. harsh, but the truth. If its not required, make sure to ask about the immersion program. Also, you better have a teaching degree or experience with english language exchange otherwise I personally feel you are not qualified. If you're not a teacher at heart, you can't teach PERIOD.
Also, even though students may be open to learning, they're still of their own culture, which is passed down from generation to generation on a small island where they can live without being curious about anything in the outside world for the most part. I will add I did get along better with my students with the teachers in terms of culture clash, but there will be some students that just don't want to learn or see a point in it.
As for finance, you will only be able to survive here for a year maximum if you have any sort of unsettled debt in your home country. If you have no college loans, you'll thrive here; otherwise, you need to settle your wages and american accounts right away because you'll have no way of contacting them or communicating with a mainline when on a japanese phone number. I had to have my parents help me with my loans after deferring them twice and unable to settle on an income driven monthly payment.
Japanese cuisine is still an acquired taste which some may not like, so look into the food and research everything and see if it matches up t your tastes or are open to trying them and not having much american food or food from wherever you're from.
I was first moved to Nagano before being moved to Ibaraki without work for three months while still being paid luckily. My job has changed 5 times in 5 months before i finally was put into a school over an hour drive from me.
if in a public school you'll have a set schedule from 8am to 4pm for example, eikaiwa jobs are the ones that require working late.
Going back to japanese culture, they are very inflexible when it comes to adjusting the style, so If you're a more creative person or one who accommodates for others, stay where you are and enjoy the dramas because you may not get along with people here. Not to say this about everyone, but enough people.